Re: Adding/removing mice dynamically

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 05/13/04

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    Date: 13 May 2004 20:43:09 GMT

    On Thu, 13 May 2004 20:26:07 GMT, Stefan Monnier staggered into the
    Black Sun and said:
    >>> - If I start X with my external USB mouse non-plugged than my
    >>> secondary mouse is turned off and no amount of plugging it in will
    >>> do any good. If I'm careful to have it plugged in when I start X,
    >>> then I can remove it and put it back in without any trouble, but I
    >> I use the same set-up on my Thinkpad. It works fine for me as long as
    >> the usb-mouse module is loaded before X starts up. (Apologies if the
    >> module name is wrong
    > Thanks, I'll try it out next time I have to reboot.

    The module that drives USB mice is called "hid" in 2.4 kernels. The
    "usbmouse" module is not the correct one to use; that one uses the
    barebones HID boot protocol instead of the real HID protocol. 

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